"Modern Web"

Different tools bring in different capabilities and workflows. But when you combine them you can get an extra gear and build great things easier and faster. From beautiful fonts, elegant shapes and vectors, colorful images, beautiful layouts to great modern mobile and desktop websites there are many routes to choose from. Let's see together some of the choices out there!

See the new features we're introducing in this latest, more modern version of Adobe Dreamweaver, the industry's reigning champion of web design tools. During this session, we'll walk through many of the simplified workflows, explaining what has been removed, why, and how to transition for optimal efficiency. The Dreamweaver product team will cover:• Powerful new features, including Adobe Creative Cloud integration and Typekit, Edge Inspect, and Edge Animate integration• The richer, streamlined interface and its many simplified workflows• Deeply integrated jQuery and jQuery Mobile support that will streamline your mobile and application development• The redacted features and how to efficiently achieve the same results

Join James Williamson, senior author at lynda.com, for an exploration of how the robust tools and support for HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery in Adobe Dreamweaver make it easy to develop compelling user interfaces that work seamlessly across devices and screen sizes. During this session, you'll learn how to:• Start with clean, accessible code and progressively enhance your interfaces• Take advantage of jQuery integration in Dreamweaver• Use CSS3 support in Dreamweaver to rapidly build complex styles• Add interactivity through CSS and jQuery• Design interfaces that guide users through the experience

Learn how to practice typography in a way that is as universal as the modern web. In this talk, Tim Brown from the Adobe Type team will focus on traditional typographic principles, while also embracing progressive enhancement.Brown will explain:• How fonts, CSS, web-enabled devices, and user contexts coexist • What it means to successfully set type • What informs routine decisions about typefaces, font sizes, and white space

CreateJS is a suite of open source libraries for building games, data visualizations, eLearning, ads, and other rich experiences on top of modern web standards, targeting web, mobile, digital publishing, and desktop. It provides a mature base for working with high-performance 2D graphics, animation, sound, and asset management.Grant Skinner, CEO of gskinner.com and founder of CreateJS, will share:• Fun, real-world examples of CreateJS in use• How to get started building great content with the libraries• A look at advanced features • Tools for a productive design/develop workflow

Join Michael Labriola, senior consultant at Digital Primates, for a discussion of modern web browsers. More than just tips and techniques, this talk will help you understand the browser's methodologies for rendering content and teach you to how to optimize your visuals and code for any screen. The session will cover:• Learning the approach browsers take to parsing HTML and CSS• Understanding layout flow and reflow• Maintaining efficiency with CSS• Debugging performance problems

Thou shalt ship. Thou shalt iterate. Love thy reader as thyself. Like their biblical predecessors, the ten commandments of modern web design can inspire us to be and do better. Learn to think noncanonically about responsive layouts, to avoid bearing false visual witness, to keep the content holy, and more.You will learn:• New techniques for turning your readers into your community (and why you need to do so).• Why usability and accessibility aren't enough—to achieve your business goals, your site or application must entertain.• Why good may be the enemy of great, but great is the enemy of shipping—and why shipping may not be everything, but sometimes it's the only thing.

The true power of Reflow is not only designing and creating layouts using CSS, but the ability to have those layouts respond to different screen sizes. From desktop to tablet to mobile. Evangelist Paul Trani takes you through how to take an initial layout, add breakpoints and modify that layout to your liking for all the various screen sizes you'd like to target. Download Adobe Edge Reflow Preview from the Creative Cloud today and give us your feedback through the Adobe Forums or on Twitter: @Reflow @PaulTrani

The web has really come a long way when it comes to text styling and fonts. And Adobe Edge Reflow Preview allows you to really style text the way you want and give you hundreds of fonts at your fingertips using Edge Web Fonts. Evangelist Paul Trani takes you through how to format text and use some of the hundreds of Edge Web Fonts available, as well as style them to your liking. Download Adobe Edge Reflow Preview from the Creative Cloud today and give us your feedback through the Adobe Forums or on Twitter: @Reflow @PaulTrani

Adobe Edge Reflow Preview allows you to not only create responsive layouts for the web, but also style that content all using CSS. Evangelist Paul Trani shows you how to do everything from adding color, rounded corners, drop shadows, gradients and of course how to handle imagery. And you have the confidence in knowing you're actually visually creating CSS. Download Adobe Edge Reflow Preview from the Creative Cloud today and give us your feedback through the Adobe Forums or on Twitter: @Reflow @PaulTrani

Adobe Edge Reflow Preview is powerful when it comes to creating layouts that are responsive. Evangelist Paul Trani introduces you to Reflow and shows you how to create your very first layout. Download Adobe Edge Reflow Preview from the Creative Cloud today and give us your feedback through the Adobe Forums or on Twitter: @Reflow @PaulTrani

In this video Evangelist Paul Trani takes you through a new tool Adobe is working on called Reflow. Reflow allows designers to create and style layouts and then make that same layout responsive, allowing it to work across desktop, tablet and mobile devices. Download Adobe Edge Reflow Preview from the Creative Cloud today and give us your feedback through the Adobe Forums or on Twitter: @Reflow @PaulTrani

In this video, Evangelist Paul Trani sits down with Jacob Surber, Product Manager of a new tool Adobe is working on called Reflow. Hear how a tool like Reflow can really empower designers to create modern, responsive web content. Web content that works across screens. From desktop to tablet to mobile. You are also encouraged to download Adobe Edge Reflow Preview via the Creative Cloud and give feedback through the Adobe forums and Twitter at @Reflow, @JacobSurber and @PaulTrani.

Find out how Adobe ColdFusion, long a mainstay in powering traditional websites and applications, has evolved to meet the challenges of modern web development. This session will show you how ColdFusion can make even this brave new world of HTML5, mobile, and responsive web pages easier for you.

Learn how you can increase your web design business through building, marketing, selling, and supporting websites with Business Catalyst, the all-in-one web hosting platform from Adobe. Brent Weaver of HotPress Web and BC Gurus has used Business Catalyst as a core offering to more than double revenues. He will explore three key strategies you can use to attract a constant pipeline of new clients and generate recurring profits. This is a session for anyone who runs or works in a modern web design agency, with clients running small to medium businesses.

Join Scott Fegette (Adobe Dreamweaver senior product manager) and Dave Johnson (Nitobi CTO) as they discuss modern web projects and their challenges in 2011. They'll give you the scoop on what you need to know to take advantage of the increased richness, reach and functionality of HTML5-based mobile projects.

Explore fresh techniques for building beautiful, sophisticated websites using Adobe Business Catalyst and the popular jQuery framework. Jason Tinnin of SimpleFlame.com and Kiyuco.com will explore, using real-world examples, just how easily you can integrate jQuery with your sites, crafting unique visitor experiences and impressing your clients. We'll cover a range of built-in modules in Business Catalyst, including the Web Apps framework, and also touch on the platform's powerful API. This is a session for anyone working in a modern web design agency interested in taking their web projects to the next level.

Native phone and tablet applications are increasingly becoming a component of modern web projects. In this video we'll show how Dreamweaver CS 5.5 integrates with the popular PhoneGap framework to use your existing web design and development skills to build native mobile applications for Android and iOS devices.